Random Thoughts in My Head

When I looked at the workout for today, I thought there was no way I was going to be able to do it. I was tired, this would be technically my sixth workout in a row and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

So I didn’t do it on April 1 like the schedule said. Instead I let my body rest on April Fools Day: I took Friday and Saturday off and did this on Sunday.

And I’m really glad I did. This was a kicker.

Crazy hair CHAMPION of the WORLD! I had to modify the workout, but it was still a kicker. WHEN DID I BECOME THE PERSON TO SUB IN SITUPS?

Anything is better than burpees though.

Not sure biking 30 minutes is considered rest, but compared to the rest of the workouts this is easy.

This workout was what I would call “muscle-based”, lots of weights to be lifted with not so much body weight exercises or tons of cardio. My barbell weight capacity is still low: 20# for overhead press, but I’m keeping the bar level and my shoulder is not screaming at me. I tried 25# and my shoulder loudly squeaked at me at just a couple test reps and there was a total of 25 to be done so I backed down to 20#. There were also 40 situps to be done, but I managed those wellenough.

Overall I find these days easier than the body weight ones since so much of body weight involves upper body and my shoulder and wrist just doesn’t like the full weight of me just yet.

Thankfully it was easier since my fucking quads are screaming.

Today’s workout was really hard. The warm up alone had 50 mountain climbers, 40 squats, 30 sit ups, 20 shoulder taps and and I managed 3/10 modified burpees.

Then I was supposed to alternate run and walk a mile.. I almost got in a 1/2 a mile and that took me just over 11 minutes. Cardio is so hard for my lungs I thought for sure my heart rate was going to explode through my chest.

And then we had the metabolic conditioning section of today’s exercise which was FOR TIME  5 sets of 10 kettle ball swings followed by 10 squats, immediately followed by 5 sets of 10 kettle ball pulls followed by 10 step ups I was about halfway done, about 10 minutes into this when I stepped back, tweaked my knee and stopped.

I stopped the timer and laid on my mat.. I almost gave up almost gave up. But I got up and I finished it.

Not going to give up today.  I also might not be able to walk tomorrow. We’ll deal with that when it happens. 🤣

Really glad today was a short workout. I don’t have a ton of weights so it was not terribly hard and that’s really, really good since I’m feeling pretty beat up from the past couple weeks.

First time wearing CVG gear and loving these bright skull pants! I liked the compression on my legs too. They are tight around the waist, but I’m hoping as long as I keep up my workouts that I’ll loose inches in the new few weeks so that won’t be a problem for long.

Warmup✅
Strength: a)25# bar; b)band ring rows; c) 5# db
Metcon: set 1&2 25# and band ring rows
Cool down ✅

I flip flopped the workouts for yesterday and today since this workout scared me and I was already tired yesterday. But I did it today. I’m not feeling great about this workout even this is the most I’ve sweat in months. I’m frustrated I let myself get this out of shape.

MOSTLY. But I did those damn sprints and even though I’m slow that’s something I can be proud of.

Warmup ✅️
Strength 10# the first set was with a barbell but that hurt my shoulder so I switched to two 5# DB for 2&3
Sprints: done on treadmill, I didn’t fully understand this so I tracked the 200m as one time. 2:59, 2:46, 2:46, 2:44, 2:38
METCON: fucking burpees and the FUCK-NO-MAN maker insanity. Even with major modification to these movements I had no rest and didn’t get 4 sets of each.
Cooldown: 👍

I decided to do my “active recovery” today instead of tomorrow so I got on the treadmill for 30 minutes.

My treadmill says that I only went a mile in that 30 minutes but my Garmin watch says that I went further by a significant amount. Which one should I trust? My previous speed walking was 3mph which is in line with what my Garmin says.

I am mostly just curious. Either way I walked/barely ran for 30 minutes!

I’m waiting on 4 different orders from CVG to arrive and I’ve been wearing the same two pairs of yoga pants for the past 8 days of workouts with only eash cycle in between. These are not squat proof and they are definitely not run proof. It’s a good thing I’m working out at home otherwise I’d be mooning the world.

Warm up: ✔️
Strength: 10#, modified planks 30 second hold is my limit for now
Metcon:  2 rounds (80 toe taps, 8 abmat situps, 20 wall push-ups, 10# DB step ups)
Cool Down: ✔️

I did 90 mountain climbers! Granted they were modified with hands on 8″ step, since my shoulder still not happy with hands on the floor, but I did 90 of them!

Warmup ✅️
Strength: 10/15/20/25/25
Endurance: 14:16 (800m)
Metcon: 3:29 (10# barbell)
Cool down ✅️

Considering a year ago I couldn’t even pick up a coffee with my right arm (post surgery) I’m pretty impressed that I was able to do dead lifts, even at a very light weight.

After going shopping on Saturday for some new equipment, getting a proper STEP, immediately trying jump on it and FALLING ON MY FACE AND WRECKING MY KNEECAP I decided to swapped Saturday and Sunday so I just did this the day 6 workout today.

First time trying a barbell technique called SNATCHES and I’m not sure im doing them right, but my shoulders and back are pretty sure they did enough work to count even with just 10#. Same goes for my lunges and squats. Not terribly low or impressive but I was dripping sweat so im sure its better than nothing.

Warm up: 💪
Strength: A:10#, B:unweighted
Endurance: 1st 3:47, 2nd 3:46 (both 8# total dbs)
Metcon: 10# (band for ohs) Time: 26:12
Cooldown👍

This kicked my butt. But I did it.